BP plc (London; www.bp.com) and Ningxia Baota Chemical Fibre Co. (a majority owned subsidiary of Baota Petrochemical Group) have signed an agreement to license BP’s latest-generation purified terephthalic acid (PTA) technology, the third such deal agreed by BP. Ningxia Baota…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded a contract by Unipetrol a.s. (Prague, Czech Republic; www.unipetrol.cz), covering the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of a new polyethylene plant (called PE3) in the complex located in Litvinov, Czech Republic. The contract was…
Milliken & Co. (Spartanburg, S.C.; www.milliken.com) announced its acquisition of Springfield LLC, a manufacturer of technical, performance and flame-resistant (FR) fabrics for the safety apparel, fire service, military and occupational markets. Springfield is based in Jericho, N.Y. with offices in…
GE’s Distributed Power business (Schenectady, N.Y; www.ge-distributedpower.com), Western Energy Systems and San Francisco-based Phoenix Energy announced that they have signed an agreement for GE to provide equipment for an integrated biomass-gasification solution to power a bioenergy plant in North Fork,…
Winning a competition run by the Department for Transport (DfT), Celtic Renewables (Edinburgh; www.celtic-renewables.com) earned an £11million grant to help it build the world’s first plant dedicated to the production of advanced biofuel from the residues of the whisky industry.…
The Lubrizol Corp. (Wickliffe, Ohio; www.lubrizol.com) announces that it has acquired Particle Sciences (www.particlesciences.com), a leading contract drug-development and manufacturing organization with a comprehensive suite of services for the formulation, analysis and production of complex drug delivery solutions. Headquartered in…
Enerkem Inc. (Montreal, Canada; www.enerkem.com), a waste-to-biofuels and chemicals producer, announced that it has raised C$152.6 million and has initiated the production of biomethanol from non-recyclable household garbage at the Enerkem Alberta Biofuels full-scale facility in Edmonton, Canada. "I must say…
W.R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.; www.grace.com) announced that it will provide its Unipol polypropylene (PP) technology and services to Hyosung Corporation of Seoul, Korea for its new facility in Ulsan, which is expected to open in 2017. Hyosung is…
Veolia (Paris, France; www.veolia.com) has signed and closed the acquisition of Dutch company AKG Kunststof Groep, a European market leader in the field of recycling and compounding of polypropylene. With this acquisition, Veolia boosts its development in the field of…
Tosoh Corp. (Tokyo; www.tosoh.com) is increasing its zirconia powder production capacity at its Nanyo and Yokkaichi Complexes by approximately 30% in response to growing global demand, particularly for dental and decorative applications. The investment for this expansion is estimated to…